Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Born Alive Abortion: an OBAMAnation

Remember my post about howbabies in England surviving abortion are left to die and how we are lucky the US doesn't do that? Well, Obama opposed and blocked the Infants Born Alive Protection Act of 2002 that passed the U.S. Senate on a voice vote when the Illinois legislature was considering it. Oh, yeah and he also supports partial birth abortion and taxpayer-funded abortions.

That is NOT the kind of "change" I want in this country! I, for one, don't want to turn the clock on human rights back to 20th century policies when such hideous crimes were legal.

Abortion foes in Illinois, following the lead of registered nurse Jill Stanek, are targeting Obama (D-Ill.) for a number of “present” and “no” votes he cast on anti-abortion legislation during his time in the Illinois state Senate.

It is hardly unusual that a Democratic candidate would receive unfavorable attention from anti-abortion groups. But Stanek and other anti-abortion crusaders in Illinois are targeting Obama because he voted on a package of legislation collectively known as the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

The legislation came about after Stanek, then a nurse at Christ Hospital in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, witnessed late-term abortions “where babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in the soiled utility room” of the hospital, in her words.

Stanek, who said she held one of those infants until it died after about 45 minutes, began reaching out to public officials, testifying before both state and national lawmakers.

From 2001 to 2002, Obama voted either “present” or “no” on the legislation. In his floor speeches at the time, he cited in particular his concerns about the constitutionality of the definition of a “born alive infant” and the inclusion of potential civil and criminal penalties for doctors in these situations. He also warned that the bill might compromise the relationship between a woman and her doctor.

The measure failed in the Illinois statehouse in both 2001 and 2002.

For evidence from Jill Stanek on how, contrary to Obama's claims, the definition of "born alive" was the same for both the U.S. Congress and the Illinois bills and then when the congressional one changed, Obama blocked an amendment to change the Ill. one, too, readhere.

Hmm... maybe this is why we're not hearing much about Obama on the issues ...

14 comments:

Anonymous
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Life is so Important-

This is my prose "The whisper faded away as the mists of the past.never to be prose again, in empty halls of maneserased and friendless, alone and vanished to wander the haunt, a forgottem vaporO Mneme O Mneme, return I pray bread nor a drink of the cup was there forever to be anew, to bane and curse, to those who devour thee,"

Hi, nice blog.Obama opposed the Born Alive Infants Bill, that if a baby is born alive the baby has the right to life.Barack Obama is the most pro-abortion (anti-life) presidential candidate ever. The prose is based on old english prose Runes writing, it's about ghosts of innocent souls that faded away because people have forgotten about innocent life. That people now today feast only to be curse because they do not remember the alone and vanished innocent souls."Mneme" was one of the three original Muses of forgetfulness.

The premise of the language is attractive. Smart, really - after all who wants to KILL BABIES? Nothing as villainous as not wanting to protect babies.

Sadly the definition in the bill of 'born alive' is so vague that it would mostly serve to create a horrifying area in hospitals where futureless, half-formed abortions - probably without adequate brain development - are kept alive for no reason but to eventually die or vegetate.

So, passage of this legislation could force the inhumane life support of extreme premature births, babies which have virtually no chance for survival, and if they do make it are gauranteed to have major birth defects and severe disability later in life.

I think the truth of the matter is that we must be CERTAIN we want a law, and all of it's implications, before we pass it. "Something is better than nothing" doesn't really cut it with laws that deal with lives.

Lionel, sorry to burst your bubble, but abortion is killing babies and a lot of people support that. Also, the Infants Born Alive Act passed overwhelmingly and is now law.

There is no such thing as "inhumane life support," but there is the inhumane practice of leaving babies alone to die or withdrawing life support so that patients starve or suffocate to death. See http://alexashrugged.blogspot.com/2008/02/full-birth-abortion-in-gb.html andhttp://alexashrugged.blogspot.com/2008/02/girl-sentenced-to-death-by-courts.html

To say that abortion is killing babies is an axiomatic presupposition of the highest degree — it is only convenient to asserting your side of the argument, and it certainly doesn't 'burst any bubbles.'

You are asking us to accept an axiom of abortion as a prerequisite for any discussion of that practice within society as a whole. This is akin to allowing NAMBLA to outline the definition of "consent" before beginning the debate.

Not to mention that even pro-lifers of nearly all stripes will stipulate conditions in which abortion isn't actually 'killing babies' after all; notorious examples include situations where abortion is necessary to save the life of the mother.

What you call an unfair axiomatic presupposition, I call scientific, medical, and biological fact. If abortion isn't killing babies - i.e. ending a human life, stopping a beating heart, resulting in death - what is it?

When an abortion is used to save the life of the mother, the baby is still killed. A baby could be killed in a car crash, too.

Perhaps the distinction you are looking for is "murder," which implies malicious intent?

Apparently you think pro-lifers are comparable to NAMBLA and that our thoughts should be discounted as such - so why am I even bothering to respond?

I am curious as to how Jill Stanek defines "alive." My guess is that these fetuses were incapable of surviving outside of the hospital and without extensive and expensive medical care. Most likely, even if this care were given, it is questionable if there would be any quality of life for these "born alive" babies.

Jill Stanke should mind her own business. No one is asking her to have an abortion.

Wow, anonymous, you have NO CLUE what you are talking about! Jill Stanek is a registered nurse who participated in abortions and blew the whistle in congressional testimony on the practice of leaving babies born alive alone to die without medical care or pain killers. She felt she couldn't just mind her own business. In part because of her testimony, the U.S. Congress made this horrific practice illegal. It's not her definition about what "alive" means, that language was decided upon in law by Congress. You act as if this law doesn't exist and this is just one random woman's opinion!

I was having a little fun with a play on words when I realized that it’s not so amusing as it is disturbing.

Ezekiel 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for the Obama Nation that be in the midst thereof

Revelation 17:5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OBOMA NATION OF THE EARTH.

Matthew 24:15When ye therefore shall see the Obama Nation of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet…(whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Ezekiel 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and the Obama Nations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with Obama Nation provoked they him to anger.

Revelation 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever is an Obama Nation, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Jeremiah 2:7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an Obama Nation.

Jeremiah 7:30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their Obama Nation in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

Isaiah 66:3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in Obama Nation.

Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, or an Obama Nation unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to the Obama Nation which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are an Obama Nation to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are as an Obama Nation to the LORD.

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